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I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

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Quentin Tarantino
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 27
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A lot of them [Germaqn actors] could come in and we could speak for the next nine hours in English and there would be no problem. It was - but it was - English wasn't the language for them to read poetry in. And there is a - there's a poetic quality to my dialogue.
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One can be inclined to just say, F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!
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ou know, if you want to see jackbooting Nazis in movies, you've got to watch American movies made at that time.
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If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.
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I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.
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Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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Well, it's funny because, The Green Leaves of Summer and The Alamo theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.
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When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And then Christoph [Waltz] came in, and I didn't know who Christoph was.
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The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.
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Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they're kind of pastoral.
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There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies.
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The other thing is even the Jews in the course - even though metaphorically aligning themselves with Indians, and, you know, you have genocide aligning itself with another genocide.
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If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down.
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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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